Infrastructure

The Biden Administration works to push its $2.3 trillion infrastructure package, after reports on the condition of states' infrastructure show a bleak outlook for the U.S. economy.

Senate Republicans are warning that President Biden’s proposed $2.7 trillion infrastructure plan will undermine jobs and ultimately crush taxpayers – the very opposite of what the bill proposes to accomplish.

Progressive Democrats this week issued a litany of demands for President Biden's sprawling $2.25 trillion spending package, calling on the president to go "big" and invest hundreds of billions of dollars in left-wing priorities.

President Biden has pitched his nearly $2.3 trillion spending proposal as a vital investment in the U.S. economy, but the proposed tax hikes that would fund the sweeping measure could kill close to 1 million jobs.

President Biden on Wednesday said he is willing to lower the proposed corporate tax increase included in his nearly $2.3 trillion spending proposal amid pushback from Republicans and some moderate Democrats.

President Biden and his top lieutenants have inaccurately depicted how many jobs the eight-year spending initiative will create.

The Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian Monday ruled in favor of a Democratic effort to pass additional legislation through a process called reconciliation, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), opening the door for Democrats to approve more fiscal measures along party lines in the Senate this year.

Sen. Joe Manchin said Monday that he does not support President Biden's proposed tax increases on corporations as part of a nearly $2.3 trillion spending proposal, potentially dealing a fatal blow to a key revenue raiser included in the infrastructure initiative. 

Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney slams Dems' efforts to push through infrastructure bill without bipartisan support.

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., slammed the state budget process arguing that New York is the "least free" state in the nation.

National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said on Sunday that there needs to be an "update" to the meaning of infrastructure in the modern world as he pitched President Biden's $2 trillion spending plan on "Fox News Sunday."

House Nevada Democrat, Rep. Dina Titus, who wears many hats sitting on both the Homeland Security and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, says that U.S. infrastructure is about more than bettering U.S. “roads and bridges” – it’s about catching up with China.

President Biden laid out an unusual eight-year time frame for his plan to spend roughly $2.2 trillion on infrastructure projects and other policy goals, raising questions among critics on how much the plan will actually cost.